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If you’re looking to have a hell of a lot of fun without turning your brain on, Postal 2 is ready to hit stores next month.

Postal 2 is on its way and I couldn’t be happier. If you all remember the first Postal, It’s probably with very fond and loving memories of killing bystanders for no good reason. And now Postal is back to invade PC monitors and make certain politicians very angry. Postal 2 is a first-person shooter that just goes through a day in the life of an ordinary guy. But the thing is that, in true chaos theory fashion, everything that can go wrong does, and you’ve got to deal with it.

I hope the developers take some advice from Grand Theft Auto III and make the game totally open-ended. I know that my favourite part of GTA III was seeing how high my wanted level could go before I was taken down by a cop. And from what publisher Whiptail Interactive is saying, Postal 2 will be quite like our favourite Mafioso masterpiece.

The most intriguing thing about the game is that you can play through it peacefully. You won’t have to fire a single shot. But there isn’t any fun in that. We all know you want to mow down innocent people as they plead for their lives, don’t you, you sicko. Well you can.

Postal 2’s mission system is based on the most run-of-the mill things the developer’s could come up with. Things like cashing your pay check, getting a quart of milk from the stereotypically named store, Happy Ganesh, and my personal favourite, going to get a book signed by the one and (hopefully) only Gary Coleman.

Throughout these ordeals you may kill whoever you please, in ways not suited for this world. While games like Soldier of Fortune showed you what violence is really like, our man Postal Dude will show you what violence should be like. For example, to silence your weapon, just shove it up a cat. That makes sense, right? But developers Running With Scissors can’t be let off with just giving us great weapons to shoot, we need great targets to shoot the weapons at.

From the actual Running With Scissors staff members to those evil little videogame protesters, everything is bullet-worthy. If you’re looking to have a hell of a lot of fun without turning your brain on, Postal 2 is ready to hit stores next month.

Preview by Mike Rainsberry.